title: The Balanced Budget Act of 1997: will hospitals take a hit on their PPS margins?
authors.affiliation: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guterman
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D016344:Medicare Part A / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States